The
Meade LX 90 10 "(254mm) telescope incorporates the highest quality Schmid-Cassegrain optical system on the market, with advanced
ACF, comma-free optics and
ultra-high transmission coatings on one side . Free optics Coma allows to widen the entire field of vision without having aberrations and not to lose detail of any celestial body, it also reduces astigmatism and eliminates diffraction peaks.Top quality coatings allow you to obtain the maximum brightness and contrast of the image.
It is a computerized telescope of the GOTO system, incorporating the
AutoAling automatic alignment system that works together with the GPS (Sony GPS reciver), which incorporates the same telescope. The
AutoStar command works as a telescope control system, correcting the periodic error during trackings or routes. Finally, the
AudioStar system is an audio program that informs the user of the object they are viewing, the information is given in different languages, including Spanish. It contains a library of 30,000 objects.
Sturdy aluminum double-wishbone fork with an adjustable quick turn speed of 1 to 7 degrees per second. The 8 x 50 search engine will make it easier for you to find objects in the deep sky.
Characteristics:
- Diameter: 10 "(254mm)
- Optical Design: Schmidt-Cassegrain Advanced Coma-Free
- Focal length: 2,500mm
- Focal ratio: f / 10
- Diameter / obstruction of secondary: 94mm / 37%
- Frame: double-arm fork made from rigid cast aluminum
- Optical Treatments: Ultra-High Transmission Coatings (UHTC)
- Resolving Power (Dawes Limit): 0.45 arcseconds
- Minimum focus distance: 15.2m
- Magnitude of visual limit: 14.5m
- Photographic limit magnitude: 17m
- Maximum recommended magnification: 650x
- AutoStar Controller: AutoStar # 497
- Object database: 30,223 objects in memory
- Finder: 8x50mm optical with cross reticle
- Eyepiece: 26mm Series 4000 SuperPlössl
- Diagonal: 1.25 "zenith prism
- Aiming accuracy (High-Precision Mode): 3 arcminutes
- GOTO Aiming Accuracy (Approx.): 5 arc minutes
- Periodic Error Correction: only working in Polar mode
- Slow motion control: electronic
- AR and DEC travel speeds: 1x, 2x, 8x, 16x, 64x, 128x, sidereal and 1.5 ° / sec., 3 ° / sec., 6.5 ° / sec.
- Guiding speeds: Sidereal, lunar, or selected at will among 2000 possibilities
- Tripod: aluminum
- Batteries (not included): 8 type C
- Average battery life (typically) 60 hrs.
- 12V DC, 5 Amp power supply available as accessory
- Automatic Alignment (GPS): Standard
- Smart Drive: Yes
- AutoStar Suite Planetarium software: included
- Primary and secondary mirror materials: Pyrex
- Correction plate: Schmidt type of Schott crystal
- Primary mirror lock: No
- Optical tube: Aluminum
- Frame: Aluminum
- Total weight of the telescope: 32Kg